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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「一重一掩」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Refers to the dense and overlapping mountains.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī zhòng yī yǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 chung5 yat1 yim2

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